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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P12 Cu7
Name COMBINATION, COMBINE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 41' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 31' 40'' Northing 6172539
Easting 466827
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Combination showing is located 0.5 kilometre southwest of the Kitsault River, 24.5 kilometres north of the town of Alice Arm. A vein has been periodically explored here for copper and precious metals since 1913. The showing is situated immediately north of a small lake.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group. The sequence is folded into the doubly plunging, north-northwest trending Kitsault River syncline and has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing occurs in a 10.0 kilometre long northwest trending body of gossanous Hazelton Group feldspar-hornblende porphyritic andesite. The andesite, informally called the "Copper Belt", has been extensively pyritized and is variably silicified and sericitized along its length.

The showing comprises a quartz-barite vein developed in a shear zone, striking 105 degrees for 49 metres. The vein varies in width from 0.9 to 3.7 metres and is mineralized with massive pods, stringers and blebs of pyrite and chalcopyrite with traces of galena and arsenopyrite. A grab sample from an adit dump assayed 7.54 grams per tonne gold, 75.4 grams per tonne silver and 2.1 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930, page 96).

An opencut is located about 100 metres northwest of some trenches and immediately below the cut, an adit, now sloughed at the portal (ca. 1970), was driven in a southerly direction.

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-81; 1916-81; 1922-57; *1930-96; 1931-38; 1934-B17; 1951-A83,A98,A99
EMPR ASS RPT *2887, *20033, 21562
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR GEM *1970-81-86
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. Annual Report, 1972)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 59
GSC SUM RPT 1921, p. 20A
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
Devlin, B.D. (1987): Geology and Genesis of the Dolly Varden Silver Camp, Alice Arm Area, Northwestern British Columbia, University of British Columbia M.Sc. Thesis
Garrow, T. (2011-09-05): Technical Report - Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-03-18): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-09-30): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property

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